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ArcelorMittal SA (MT): Today's Featured Metals & Mining Laggard

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ArcelorMittal (
MT) pushed the Metals & Mining industry lower today making it today's featured Metals & Mining laggard. The industry as a whole closed the day down 1.6%. By the end of trading, ArcelorMittal fell 16 cents (-1.1%) to $14.82 on average volume. Throughout the day, 5.9 million shares of ArcelorMittal exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 6.4 million shares. The stock ranged in price between $14.75-$15.13 after having opened the day at $15 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $14.98. Other companies within the Metals & Mining industry that declined today were:
Minco Gold Corporation (
MGH), down 9.4%,
Alpha Natural Resources (
ANR), down 7.8%,
Stillwater Mining Company (
SWC), down 7.3%, and
China Shen Zhou Mining & Resources (
SHZ), down 6.8%.

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ArcelorMittal, together with its subsidiaries, operates as an integrated steel and mining company worldwide. ArcelorMittal has a market cap of $22.68 billion and is part of the
basic materials sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 16.3, below the average metals & mining industry P/E ratio of 104.6 and below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are down 17.6% year to date as of the close of trading on Thursday. Currently there are four analysts that rate ArcelorMittal a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and three rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates ArcelorMittal as a
hold. Among the primary strengths of the company is its generally strong cash flow from operations. At the same time, however, we also find weaknesses including a generally disappointing performance in the stock itself, disappointing return on equity and poor profit margins.